<p>When applying to medical school, do the admissions committee consider your major after looking at your GPA? More specifically, would some leeway be given in tough majors such as engineering, or all GPAs looked at really the same, regardless of the major?</p>
<p>Engineering (or physics or math or philosphy or <insert any="" major="" here="">) majors are not given any special consideration w/r/t to GPA by adcomms.</insert></p>
<p>I can’t speak to engineering, but admissions percentages are very similar across all majors. That’s NOT correcting for any GPA differences. English majors who apply (whatever their GPAs may be) get in at the same rate as Physics majors who apply (whatever their GPAs may be).</p>
<p>In the statistics made available by the AAMC, I believe that engineering is not broken out into its own field, so it’s hard to say for certain in that specific case.</p>
<p>Things like major and course load are taken into account, but ultimately the effect is small.</p>